In the 1830s settlers emigrated from Salem, Massachusetts to LaSalle County, Illinois. They brought along with them some of their more unpleasant, unsavory past. There were plain wars between settlers and Indians and whites put together a massacre and mass buried them in what became the cemetery. The Moon family were the curators of the plots. Local legend began after such things as farmers being woken up in the middle of the night with loud crashes coming from the cemetery, and then investigating and seeing all the tombstones knocked over. And then there were the murders... http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/245570?key=75fd64a98f47d67d1493e1cb64d8a0c3058670b9 http://www.ghosttraveller.com/illinois_streator_area.htm http://www.markapierceinc.com/ http://www.imdb.com/ (put in "Moon Creek Cemetery")
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